The Lower House. 355

to the delay of the publick Business, But join your En-
deavours to finish this Sessions
Sign'd p Order Geo: Plater Cl. Up: Ho.

On a motion being made the Question was put whether
there shall be an alteration in the Law for ascertaining al-
lowances or not.
Carried in the Negative.

The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning nine of the
Clock.

Thursday Octo^r the 28^th 1725
The House meets according to Adjournment.
Yesterdays proceedings are Read.
A Bill declaring probatts and Acknowledgments &c^a taken
before the Magistrates in Annapolis to be Valid, was read
the first and second times by Especial Order and past, and
was so Endorst, and sent to the Upper House by Vachel
Denton and Robert Gordon Esq^rs
They Return and Say they delivered it.
John Hall Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill directing the Disposall of Servants Committed for
want of Security for their good behaviour with the following
Message viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly

Octo^r the 28^th 1725
Gentlemen.
If the two Servants you mention in your Message Yester-
day by Cap^t Crabb and Coll^o Belt, were Committed to Goal

for any Crimes or Misdemeanours Committed by them, we

admire they should Remain there so long and not be brought
to a Tryal by which Means they would be found guilty and
Recieve Due Punishment or be Acquitted and Return'd to
their Masters Service as our Law Relating to Criminal Ser-
vants directs, but if they were only Committed upon Sus-
picion of Misbehaviour, and after having lain so long in
Prison no Act tending thereto Can be proved against them,
we are of Opinion that they ought to be Releas'd and Return'd
to their Masters, who after the Expiration of their Service
are obliged by our Act of Assembly for the payment of the
Criminall Servants fees to deliver them up for the payment
of their fees, or pay their fees for them. If you please to Read
the aforesaid Act of Assembly, we believe you will find Suffi-
cient Provision therein made for the present Case, and we

L. H. J.